Urban's Way Urban Meyer, the Florida Gators,

To Write the Urban Meyer Story, Buddy Martin enjoyed a vantage point rarely afforded authors in constructing the authorized biography of Florida's high-profile coach. Martin takes the reader where no other journalist has gone before as he reports the most intimate details about one of the nation's top college football programs and its coach.

BUDDY MARTIN is a Florida-born-and-raised journalist who grew up in the shadow of the Swamp and has known and interviewed every Florida football coach of the past fifty years. This is his fourth book on Gator football. The son of a newspaperman, Martin has won more than 150 awards during his journalism career, which includes sports editorships of four major newspapers—Florida Today, The St. Petersburg Times, the New York Daily News, and The Denver Post. Among the awards Buddy received was an Emmy in 1992 as an associate producer of The NFL Today show on CBS for his work with Terry Bradshaw. Martin left as associate editor of the Charlotte Sun (Florida) in 2008 to become executive editor of GatorCountry.com and Gator Country Magazine, where his popular columns now appear. He is a regular sports talk-radio commentator in Denver and in Florida. Buddy is also co-creator and associate director of the Sports Journalism Summit, held annually at the Poynter Media Institute in St. Petersburg. He and his longtime wife, Joni, and dog, Rinny, reside in Ocala, the birthplace of Buddy, his oldest daughter, Lori, and his late father, Wilton.

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Foreword	p. ix
Preface: Lunch with Urban by the Lake	p. xi
Prologue	p. 1
The Road to Gainesville	p. 5
The Cul-de-Sac of Champions	p. 7
The Man with the Plan	p. 27
The Book of Urban	p. 33
"Winning Prevents Anarchy"	p. 45
The Good Life in Ashtabula	p. 50
Bud and Earle	p. 65
Loving Fort Collins	p. 72
Lou Holtz Calls	p. 79
The Bowling Green Boys	p. 93
Utah: The Land of Diversity	p. 108
Becoming a Gator	p. 127
Shelley, the Go-To Girl	p. 129
Getting the Band Back Together	p. 142
The Spread for Arizona	p. 158
The SEC Stairway to Heaven	p. 174
Two Battles to Win in Atlanta	p. 205
The Joy of Winning It All	p. 215
The Season Inside Gator Football 2007	p. 241
Making History-Maybe	p. 243
Waltzing Past Tennessee	p. 256
Learning the Truth in Oxford	p. 262
Murderer's Row 2	p. 269
Madhouse in Baton Rouge	p. 277
Remembering Sunshine	p. 283
The Georgia Surprise	p. 287
The Tim Tebow Show	p. 292
The First "Heisman Dinner"	p. 301
"That Was a Wow!"	p. 309
Living Large on Times Square	p. 315
In the Rearview Mirror	p. 322
Waking Up to the American Dream	p. 337
The Michigan Hangover	p. 339
The Promise	p. 343
The Apology	p. 352
The Championship Run	p. 358
Dancing in the Rain	p. 366
Driving Toward History	p. 371
Later for the Sooners	p. 378
Index	p. 391
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